Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While walking around, the discriminating shopper can munch samples of Club treats like gourmet lasagna or Haagen-Dazs ice cream. My sister and I usually consider this a meal, since by the time you've eaten your way through the food aisles and down one hundred yards to the electronics section, you're full...
...Adams House, students in slinky cocktail dress populated the Upper Common Room for the house's annual Chocoholica event. Attendees dined on erotically shaped chocolate at the gourmet extravaganza, where the specialty of the night was the "Whopper...
...Catering did its part this year to assist even the most inept lover. With its "Deliveries from the Heart" program, HSA supplied what pamphlets trumpeted as an ensemble of "Valentine's Day Specials." Yet the result was far from gourmet wooing...
...example, observe the $35 "Always and Forever" package, which includes a plush 9" teddy bear, a one-pound heart shaped box of chocolates, a half dozen cupcakes and chocolate cookies (gourmet, nonetheless) and seven balloons. Harvard catering promises the ensemble will "show your love is forever,"--not false advertising considering remnants of the chocolates will probably linger somewhere under your futon for all eternity...
...Night Neither the time (the 1950s) nor the place (the Jersey Shore) is propitious for a gourmet Italian restaurant. But the struggles of the immigrant Pilaggi brothers to impose their delicate risottos on a red-sauce culture are perhaps the year's most unlikely success. Primo, the chef (Tony Shalhoub), has the soul of an artist--watchful, uncompromising, mildly depressive. Secondo, the maitre d' (Stanley Tucci, who, with Campbell Scott, wrote and directed), is trying vainly to be an American entrepreneur. Stumbling toward bankruptcy, they also sail toward wisdom in this beautifully acted and utterly delicious comedy of--shall...